Pedro Armendáriz
Born: 1912-05-09 in Mexico City, Distrito Federal, Mexico
Died: 1963-06-18
Known For: Acting
Biography
Born in Churubusco, a suburb of Mexico City, and raised in Texas, he studied at California Polytechnic State University where he graduated with an engineering degree. He began his acting career at the stage in Mexico City, entering films there in 1935. During the next years he made 42 Spanish-language films, among them "Maria Candelaria" (1943) and "La Perla" (1947), becoming one of Mexico`s top film stars. His first American film was "The Fugitive" for RKO in 1947. Since then he costarred in more than 80 films in Hollywood, England, France, Germany and Italy. Credits include "Fort Apache" (1948), "Three Godfathers", "We Were Strangers" (1949), "El Bruto" (1952), "The Littlest Outlaw" (1955), "The Conqueror" (1956), "La Cucaracha" (1958) and "The Wonderful Country" (1959). When Armendariz was taken ill while filming the second James Bond film "From Russia With Love" his scenes were rushed through so he could return to L.A. for treatment and he entered UCLA Medical Center. Learning he had terminal cancer he killed himself there with a gunshot.
Filmography
2024
- The Conqueror: Hollywood Fallout as Self (archive footage)
1963
- From Russia with Love as Ali Kerim Bey
- Captain Sindbad as El Kerim
- La Bandida as Roberto Herrera
1962
- My Son, the Hero as Cadmo
- Los valientes no mueren
- Miracles Weaver as Señor Cura
1961
- Francis of Assisi as The Sultan
- My Son, the Hero as General
1960
- La cárcel de Cananea as Pedro
- Our Daily Hunger as Macario Férnandez
- Violent Summer as Francisco Peña
- El indulto as Lucas Sánchez Parrondo
- Dos hijos desobedientes as Pedro
- Los desarraigados
- Calibre 44 as Don Pedro
- El impostor as Profesor César Rubio
1959
- The Wonderful Country as Cipriano Castro
- Café Colón
- Beyond All Limits as Pepe Gamboa
- Thirst for Love as Pedro Ortiz
- La Cucaracha as Coronel Valentín Razo
- Yo pecador
- El zarco
- The Little Savage as El Tiburón
- I'm flying low
- The Vivanco Ladies as Gen. Inocencio Torrentera
1958
- Westinghouse Desilu Playhouse
- This Was Pancho Villa: Third chapter as Pancho Villa
- This Was Pancho Villa: Second chapter as Pancho Villa
- Yo quiero ser artista as Self
- Los salvajes as Pedro Matías
1957
- Manuela as Mario Constanza
- This Was Pancho Villa: First chapter as Pancho Villa
- Men and Wolves as Giovanni
- The Big Boodle as Col. Mastegui (as Pedro Armendariz)
- La mujer que no tuvo infancia
1956
- The Conqueror as Jamuga
- Diane as King Francis I
- Basket of Mexican Tales as Carlos Cosio
- The Hidden One as Felipe Rojano
1955
- The Littlest Outlaw as Gen. Torres
- Fortune carrée as Igricheff
- Native Drums as Martinez
1954
- Rebellion of the Hanged as Cándido Castro
- Dos mundos y un amor as Ricardo Anaya
- Border River as General Calleja (as Pedro Armendariz)
- Reto a la vida as Diego Maldonado
- Mulata as Martín
1953
- Lucrèce Borgia as César Borgia
- The Brute as Pedro
- The Lovers of Toledo as Don Alvaro Blas Basto y Mosquera
1952
- Soledad's Shawl as Roque Suazo
- Los tres alegres compadres as Baldomero Mireles
- Night Falls as Marcos Arizmendi
- Meat in Prison as Pablo González
1951
- For Loving a Woman
- Hell Road as Pedro Uribe
- Weddings of fire
- Ella y yo as Pedro Muñóz
- Tierra baja as Manelic
1950
- By the False Door as Bernardo Celis
- Rosauro Castro as Rosauro Castro
- La loca de la casa as José María Cruz
- The Torch as José Juan Reyes
- Pancho Villa vuelve
1949
- We Were Strangers as Armando Ariete
- Tulsa as Jim Redbird
- El abandonado
- Late Afternoon as Sebastian del Llano
- The Unloved Woman as Esteban
- El charro y la dama
1948
- 3 Godfathers as Pedro 'Pete' Roca Fuerte
- Fort Apache as Sgt. Beaufort
- Juan Charrasqueado as Juan Robledo (Charrasqueado)
- Maclovia as José María
- En la Hacienda de la Flor
1947
- The Fugitive as A Lieutenant of Police
- The Pearl as Quino
- Albur de amor
- La casa colorada
1946
- Enamorada as Gen. José Juan Reyes
- Rayando el sol
1945
- El capitán Malacara
- Bugambilia as Ricardo Rojas
- The Abandoned as Juan Gómez
- Entre hermanos as Ramón Arellano
1944
1943
- Another Dawn as Octavio
- Wild Flower as José Luis Castro
- Tierra De Pasiones
- Konga Roja as Federico Robles
1942
- Allá en el bajio as Juan Hernández
- Passion Island as El Toro
- Del rancho a la capital
- I'm a Real Mexican as Guadalupe Padilla
- Simón Bolívar as General Briceño Méndez
1941
- Neither Blood Nor Sand as Frank
- El secreto del sacerdote as Capitán Luis
- El Zorro de Jalisco as Leonardo Torres
1940
- Los olvidados de Dios as Zenón Rojas
- Mala yerba as Chuy Rodríguez
- El jefe máximo
- Pobre diablo as Raúl Solares
- El charro Negro as Ramón
1939
1938
- Los millones de Chaflán as Antonio
- Canto a mi tierra as Antonio
- El indio